Thanksgiving gave me the chance to play around with a friend’s Kindle Fire. I thought the screen was pretty nice, and didn’t see the pixelation in text, as some have said. Colors were sharp, and overall it looks good. However, I really don’t like the interface. Maybe if you have never used any other android [...]
It would seem that the Amazon Kindle Fire will become the first android tablet to mount any true challenge to Apple’s iPad, in terms of market share. Amazon has reportedly just had to ramp up it’s production pre-orders, from an initial 3 million units, to 5 million by year’s end. Obviously, the device has resonated [...]
Viewsonic just released a 7 inch android tablet priced at $199, and now Leader International Inc. has undercut that price by $20. For $179, you can purchase the 7 inch Impression 7(I7). Getting the price that low has come at the expense of hardware and software features, however. The tablet runs on android 2.2, Froyo. [...]
comScore, a company which analyzes digital marketing and provides solutions for customers, has released an interesting set of figures. According to their study, “Digital Omnivores: How Tablets, Smartphones and Connected Devices are Changing U.S. Digital Media Consumption Habits”, 6.8% of internet traffic in the United States is from mobile devices. Of that percentage, around 2/3 [...]
The first version of what was to become iOS was released in June, 2007 along with the first iPhone. Originally called iPhone OS, it was changed to iOS in June of 2010, with the ability to run on iPhones, iPod touch, and iPads. With version 4.1, support for Apple TV’s second generation media receiver was [...]
Yet another Indian company has announced a new tablet, and guess what ? It is priced at a meager $99. While the HP’s fire sale last week is still fresh in our minds, we have another tablet that sells for $99. The Bangalore based firm, LACS(Lakshmi Access Communications Systems) has introduced its tablet called Magnum [...]
There aren’t many tablets in the market selling for under $200. And the ones that are, usually are running older versions of android, and have resistive screens(ugh). The X10 Airpad, available for $199.99, has fairly decent features for the price. The processor is a 1.2 Ghz Rockchip 2918 Cortex A8- single core, but a decent [...]
This week saw a couple of roms get updates, namely Borkata’s AdamBigDroid, to V 1.1, and Roach & team’s PRIME! v1.6. For Adam users, AdamBigDroid’s update has one very cool addition-Netflix working on a Froyo rom. It works in both landscape and portrait mode. Several icons-wifi, bluetooth, usb connect and others have been freshened up. [...]
Have you ever thought how bad an app made for Froyo or Gingerbread looks in your Honeycomb tablet? Well, google has announced that developers will now be able to deploy multiple APKs for the same product, to support different versions of Android.
